I'm gonna have to start walking down the street and start hitting people in the head!

People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.

As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

I think that the current climate enables a lot of musicians to do relatively well. Twenty-five years ago, you could be a bass player in a folk-rock band and do pretty well - that sort of means that you're going to have to go get a day job. But a lot of my friends have learned how to write classical music for movies and produce other people and do remixes, and DJ and go on tour, and do all these different things. The more diverse their approach, the better their chances of actually having a career.

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.